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AON OFFERS COVERAGEFOR TAKEOVER DEFENSECHICAGO - Aon Risk Services Cos. Inc. and its subsidi

The story headlined ''Bigger Superfund budget proposed'' that appeared on Page 8A on Thursday, May 1

STATE FARM'S EARNINGSJUMPED IN 1ST QUARTERState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the la

AIG INSURANCE SERVICES INC.Cecilia E. Norat will become president of newly formed AIG Vendor

Cargo traffic at the world's airports rose by 6.9 percent in February to reach 3.6 million tons comp

Employers in California paid about $5.9 billion in workers compensation premiums in 1995, a 27 perce

Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday argued successfully on behalf of three South Texas motor

With the Mexican economy showing signs of rebound and a brand new general cargo storage area opened

General Electric Co., the American Institute of Marine Underwriters, the Water Quality Insurance Syn

POSSIBLE EXPLOSION CITEDIN VALUJET CRASHMIAMI - Investigators focused Wednesday on a possibl

President Clinton almost certainly will appoint two more emergency boards before the weekend to inve

SHIPSJUGUM, LONGSHORE LEADERIN SEATTLE, DIES AT 81SEATTLE - Martin Jugum, 81, a long

Maersk Line, having doubled its container space at Taiwan's main port, is working with other carrier

Some very large investors are betting that American President Cos.' stock price is overvalued.

As Brazil seeks to define its trade strategy approaching the 21st Century, it finds itself walking a

The number of options for disposing of dredged material from San Francisco Bay will expand considera

A list of $3 billion in annual imports from China targeted for trade sanctions because of a copyrigh

Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is giving up the Senate seat he has held for 28 years to put a sharp

The farmers and the railroads are at it again.The long-running feud between Western Canadian

AIRBUS SEEKS PARTNERIN AIRLINER PROJECTBERLIN - European aircraft consortium Airbus Industri

Celadon Group is planning to buy troubled Burlington Motor Carriers Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

Wednesday, May 15, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Trade officials will start a flurry of talks, after nearly 10 years of discussion, in a bid to beat

The U.S. dollar rose sharply against the Japanese yen Wednesday, as traders decided that interest ra

The European Commission is coming under growing pressure to block a $960 million government subsidy

April saw the market stabilize after its recent drop and perhaps start that oft-anticipated climb ba

PLM International said it will stop organizing and selling investment funds to the public.In

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 19, '95, - May 15, '96 (a graph)(2)D

U.S. textile importers are once again clashing with domestic suppliers over the sensitive issue of C

Foreign shipping lines may get an unexpected knock-at-the-door from the U.S. Internal Revenue Servic

List of $3 billion in imports from China facing sanctions by the United States. It will be cut to $2

ZYUGANOV PROMISESPROPERTY IS SAFEMOSCOW - Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, reassurin

The nation's largest banks pressed their fight against proposed Iran-Libya sanctions in the House th

''Get the Shell out of Nigeria.''

The finance ministers of 26 Western Hemisphere countries will seek this weekend to ''move forward on

MAYS.O.S. Safety on Ships. Through Dec. 30. New York. Exhibit on New York's maritime tragedi

1433 (May 15, 1996) Previous day - 1438The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

The United States called Wednesday for governments to firmly set the link between trade and labor st